If you're doing all the things to balance your hormones but haven't considered your gut, you're missing a HUGE piece of the puzzle.

Hormone health and gut health are deeply connected, and if your gut is out of balance, so are your hormones.

Your gut does more than digest food - it acts like an endocrine gland, producing and regulating hormones like insulin, ghrelin, and even estrogen. It also plays a major role in detoxifying and eliminating used hormones so they don’t recirculate and cause imbalance.

If your gut bacteria are off (aka dysbiosis), this entire process can get disrupted, leading to hormone symptoms like:

• Irregular or painful periods
• Acne (especially jawline breakouts)
• PMS or mood swings
• Fatigue and brain fog
• Weight gain, especially around the midsection
• In men, hormone imbalances can look like low energy, reduced muscle mass, increased body fat, and changes in mood or libido.

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How Dysbiosis Disrupts Your Hormones

Your gut bacteria help break down and eliminate estrogen through a process called glucuronidation. But when there's an overgrowth of the wrong bacteria, an enzyme called beta-glucuronidase can reactivate estrogen, sending it back into circulation.

This can contribute to estrogen dominance, which is linked to symptoms like heavy periods, bloating, and hormonal acne for women.

This is also why many women struggling with PCOS, endometriosis, or thyroid imbalances often have underlying gut issues. If you don’t address dysbiosis, hormone-balancing strategies (like seed cycling, adaptogens, or hormone-friendly workouts, etc.) might only get you so far.

How to Support Your Gut for Better Hormone Balance

Here's the good news: you can rebalance the gut through diet and lifestyle shifts that support a diverse microbiome. Here’s where to start:

✔️ Increase plant diversity: Aim for 30+ different plant foods per week (veggies, fruits, nuts, seeds, herbs, and spices) to feed a variety of beneficial bacteria.

✔️ Prioritize fiber: Prebiotic fibers (found in foods like onions, garlic, artichokes, and flaxseeds) feed the good bacteria that support hormone health.

✔️ Support liver detox: Your liver processes and eliminates hormones, and it depends on your gut to finish the job. Cruciferous veggies (broccoli, kale, cabbage) and sulfur-rich foods (onions, garlic, eggs) help with this.

✔️ Check for dysbiosis: If you suspect gut issues are disrupting your hormones, functional lab testing (like the GI-MAP stool test) can reveal imbalances and guide a targeted plan to restore gut health.

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Struggling with stubborn hormone symptoms?

If you're doing everything right but still not feeling your best, it's time to dig deeper. This is exactly what I help my clients with inside The Gut Reset Program - my personalized, lab-driven approach to healing your gut so your hormones can finally balance for good.

If you’re ready to get to the root cause of your symptoms, book a free Discovery Call to see if this is the right fit for you!

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Your hormones (and your future self) will thank you ❤️

In health,

-Daina

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P.S. In case you missed it…. reminder that the investment for my signature gut healing program is going up on March 31! Here’s the newsletter I sent with all the details. ​

P.P.S. My colleague Sherry Shaban (who I met through being on her podcast!) is hosting a free 9 Day Masterclass March 17-25 where she will be teaching her nervous system approach to speeding up metabolism, regulating hormones, shifting into fat burning and healing the gut-brain connection. If this kind of stuff interests you, check it out!

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